How do I navigate to what your are talking about from here? Because this is my software center. It doesn't matter though I can't download anything it won't connect at all, even with the ethernet. I have another computer that has windows 8 that I'm using right now to talk to you. Is there a way that I can download the multiverse to flash drive and then put it on the laptop?

So here is the setup, it's a Dell laptop that had Vista on it, the backlight in the screen went out, so I hooked it up to my monitor and we use that screen. Anyway, I recently went full tard and downloaded a program to hack an iphone game and then all of then sudden every bit of my bandwidth was being used, not by me, and my internet was being used up (I have Hughes Net). Data was constantly being uploaded to computers whose IPs were all over the globe. It was no fun. So I wiped the hard drive and put Ubuntu on it, I told my Mom that it would be very easy for her to use. I had Ubuntu on a desktop once and it was great.
Now this is my problem: Ubuntu doesn't seem to recognize that the laptop's NIC is wifi compatible. So I suppose I need to know how to enable this feature manually.

TL;DR I just want help connecting my laptop to my belkin router via wifi, but Ubuntu isn't recognizing that computer is capable of wifi.

All of these people need to be replaced. We need to start fresh, get some recent college grads to fill the positions in the House and Senate. See where that goes. Because these fuckers don't deserve the job they're not doing.

Turtle stackin' mother fucker. Why's he so happy? He's fucking with the order of things, turtles are supposed to be holding up the world/universe. He's putting turtles on turtles, I think that happy mother fucker is trying to make some sort of mega world/universe on that top turtle.